Week 6: February 11-14

UPCOMING DUE DATES

Monday 2/11: Need your biography book in hand for Biography Lit Circles
Tuesday 2/14: Whitman and Dickinson Explication + Response Assessment
Thursday 2/21: First Biography Reading Check (see schedule below)
Thursday 2/28: Second Biography Reading Check (see schedule below)
Thursday 3/7: Third Biography Reading Check (see schedule below)
Thursday 3/14: Biography Parallel Final Assessment

RECENT HANDOUTS AND PRESENTATIONS

• Imagining Emily Dickinson -- article and assignment
• Imagining Emily Dickinson -- poems
• Emily Dickinson -- background and photos
• Dickinson -- I'm Nobody! Who are You? 
• Dickinson: Explication Outline Assignment
• Whitman:The Poet of Democracy -- notes on style, article, poems, assignment  
• Whitman: Explication Outline Assignment 
• Whitman "O Me, O Life"
• Biography Reading Schedule and Assignment

 

Monday 2/11

• Finish Dickinson Explication Assignment
• Review terms in notes: verse, blank verse, free verse
• Whitman intro -- read article and record five key ideas
• Homework -- finish Dickinson explication to turn in on Tuesday

Tuesday 2/12

•  Turn in Dickinson explication and notes
• Whitman background and style -- review terms in notes: cataloging/listing, long lines, parallel structure, anaphora
• Read and annotate "O Me, O Life" -- discuss meaning and technique, as well as the connection to transcendentalism

Wednesday 2/13

• Work on Whitman explication using one of poems in packet -- finish for homework
• Begin planning Part II of the Quest
• 20 minutes of free reading -- bring your biographies

Thursday 2/14

• Happy Valentines!
• Continue working through Whitman's poetry -- turn in explication
• Continue to plan Part II of the Quest
• 20 minutes of free reading -- bring your biographies
• Homework -- finish preparing for Part II of the quest; review terms and notes for Part I